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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Today is Poem In Your Pocket day

New York City is hosting the 10th Anniversary Poem in Your Pocket day today (April 26th) to commemorate National Poetry Month.

So what poem is in your pocket today?

April 26, 1956 -Godzilla debuted in American (Gojira premiered in Japan on November 3, 1954) :

a very good Sci-Fi film intercut with Raymond Burr, the undisputed king of deadpan delivery and nipple rouge entrepreneur.

April 26, 1452 -Leonardo da Vinci was born on this date. Mr. da Vinci was one of the great minds of the Renaissance. Sadly, he is best known for having painted the Mona Lisa (in Italian, La Joconde,), in which he accurately and exquisitely captured the unmistakable smile of a dignified woman who's just farted.

For some reason, many lonely computer geeks celebrate this day by releasing computer virii in hopes that female FBI agents will break down their doors.

Today in History:
On April 26, 1923 (almost 88 years previously to the date of his great-grandson's nuptials,) the Duke of York married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey.

This wedding might have slipped into the ephemera of time had the Duke's brother not wanted to marry a woman reported so ugly, many thought her a man in drag. And calling a woman ugly in England is really saying something, as many of the British upper crush often marry their horses out of confusion.

April 26, 1865 -
Discovered hiding in a farmer's tobacco shed, John Wilkes Booth is shot in the neck by a complete lunatic. Dying and paralyzed from the neck down, he whispers: Tell my mother I did it for my country.

As his hands are held up to his face, Booth mutters "useless...useless..."

They are his last words.

April 26, 1933 -Hermann Goering founded the Geheime Staatspolizei, otherwise known as the Gestapo on this date.

The original purpose of this "Secret State Police" is to disrupt and harass opponents of National Socialism, but it will later come to adopt many additional responsibilities.

April 26, 1937 -
It was a beautiful Monday afternoon in Guernica, Spain. At about 3:30 pm the day took a tragic turn. For over three hours, twenty-five or more of Germany's best-equipped bombers, accompanied by at least twenty more Messerschmitt and Fiat Fighters, dumped one hundred thousand pounds of high-explosive and incendiary bombs on the village, slowly and systematically pounding it to rubble.

Guernica had served as the testing ground for a new Nazi military tactic - blanket-bombing a civilian population to demoralize the enemy. It was wanton, man-made holocaust.

The bombing was the subject of a famous anti-war painting by Pablo Picasso.

April 26, 1986 -44 seconds into a late-night experiment at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, reactor number four sustains two large explosions. The exploded at Chernobyl burned for 10 days. About 70% of the fallout fell in Belarus. Damage was estimated to be up to $130 billion. The Soviet news agency TASS holds off reporting the incident for almost 48 hours.

A 300-hundred-square-mile area was evacuated and 31 people died as unknown thousands were exposed to radioactive material that spread in the atmosphere throughout the world. By 1998 10,000 Russian liquidators involved in the cleanup had died and thousands more became invalids. It was later estimated that the released radioactivity was 200 times the combined bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was later found that Soviet scientists were authorized to carry out experiments that required the reactor to be pushed to or beyond its limits, with safety features disabled.

Places I go to waste time while awaiting my death

About Me

1.) What is your idea of perfect happiness? - A cocktail party with my friends,
2.) What is your greatest fear? - One of the girls getting seriously injured,
3.) What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? - Impatience with others,
4.) What is the trait you most deplore in others? - Intentional lateness,
5.) Which living person do you most admire? - Jimmy Carter,
6.) What is your greatest extravagance? -
Finding the time to write,
7.) What is your current state of mind? -
Mild Elation with a hint of creeping dread,
8.) What do you consider the most overrated virtue? - Religious Piety,
9.) On what occasion do you lie? - To protect the feeling of others,
10.) What do you most dislike about your appearance? - My expanding waistline,
11.) Which living person do you most despise? - The current Majority Leader of the Senate,
12.) What is the quality you most like in a man? - Loyalty,
13) What is the quality you most like in a woman? - Ability to laugh spontaneously at my lame jokes,
14.) Which words or phrases do you most overuse? - Like,
15.) What or who is the greatest love of your life? - Besides my children, Mrs Mao (she knows who she is.)

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